ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,528, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating sentiment models using weak labels generated from discourse markers" was invented by Liat Ein-Dor (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ilya Shnayderman (Jerusalem), Artem Spector (Rishon Le-Zion, Israel), Lena Dankin (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ranit Aharonov (Ramat Hasharon, Israel) and Noam Slonim (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a processor to receive a list of sentiment carrying discourse markers. The processor is to select sentences in a text corpus that begin with a discourse marker from the list of sentiment c...